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It is not unusual for your loyal correspondent to skip a road game (which I suppose makes me not-so-loyal, after all), but tonight’s game in San Jose marks a rare occasion: a regular season Rangers game in which not a single New York paper will be represented. Both the Daily…

A lot to think about now that Mats Sundin is out of the picture: Do the Rangers look at what else is out there? Do they sit tight until the trade deadline? Do I shovel the snow as it falls, or wait for it to stop first? If only I…

So it turns out Glen Sather won’t have to make any magical moves to clear salary cap space: “Mats Sundin has signed with the Canucks, after all.”:http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=260123&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl “I am truly excited to be joining the Canucks,” said Sundin in a team statement. “Once I made the decision to return to…

So maybe everyone was getting ahead of themselves in thinking Mats Sundin was going to give the Rangers a plum discount purely out of a desire to win and the kindness of his heart. According to Larry Brooks, the free agent center “is still looking to get paid”:http://www.nypost.com/seven/12182008/sports/rangers/sundin_awaits_rangers_6m_offer_144718.htm. If Sundin…

Stephen Valiquette gets the nod in goal tonight against the Kings, on the second leg of a back-to-back (this thanks to Zipay, who “chimes in from the West Coast”:http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/hockey/rangers/blog/). The move makes sense on two fronts: in guarding against wear-and-tear on Henrik Lundqvist, but mostly in preventing the Rangers from…

A couple of quick hits after last night’s 3-1 win over the Ducks. <li>Dear Chris Pronger, In the spirit of the season, I will give you back your skates, even though I faked you out of them in the third period last night. Happy holidays to you and yours, Nigel…

So Thursday appears to be the day that Mats Sundin will finalize his decision on whether he’ll play for the Rangers or the Canucks, “this according to a story out of Vancouver”:http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=259896&lid=sublink01&lpos=headlines_nhl. ”He’s going to make a decision Thursday about the final destination,” Gillis told reporters. ”We re-iterated our position…

I’m so sorry to hear that it’s cold and rainy on the West Coast. Really, I am. It breaks me up. In the meantime, some notes from the cozy confines of Blog Headquarters: <li>The real trading deadline isn’t for another few months, but the Rangers are confronting their own of…

J.P. Barry, the agent for Mats Sundin, disputed “a report that says Mats Sundin has already settled on the Rangers”:http://www.fan590.com/, saying the center hasn’t yet made a final decision on where he’ll play this season. But Barry also said the Rangers have made clear they want Sundin, and have even…

Bob McKenzie checks in with the latest on Mats Sundin, saying that “the Rangers haven’t made a formal offer to the center”:http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=259800&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl, which we can all agree is kind of hard when the team doesn’t yet have much money to offer. Once a four-team race, McKenzie now says the competition…

As we’ve said all along, the Mats Sundin issue hangs around two questions for the Rangers: whether the center wants to play in New York; whether the Rangers can clear enough cap space to be able to sign him; and then whether Sundin would be willing to accept significantly less…

So the Rangers board a plane for the West Coast today, where they’ll play three games in five nights beginning Tuesday, and it turns out Corey Potter will be with them. The defenseman, who made his NHL debut a few games back against Calgary, will give the team a needed…

The marriage between Sean Avery and the Dallas Stars “is over after 23 games.”:http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Ai0d1ahsJcRzbHxlb5V8R_c5nYcB?slug=ap-stars-avery&prov=ap&type=lgns The team announced that the forward won’t play for the team again, although the Stars still have to deal with that pesky detail of Avery’s contract. A trade, a waive, or a summer buyout are all…

If you’re going to criticize Tom Renney’s stubborn — some might call it maddening — faith in his players, then you have to give the coach credit when it pays off. Last night was “one of those examples”:http://www.lohud.com/article/20081214/SPORTS01/812140404/-1/SPORTS. Not only did Renney insist on going back to Henrik Lundqvist a…

Some odds-and-ends before the Rangers try to hold their opponent tonight to less than eight goals: <li>Henrik Lundqvist gets the start in goal. Tom Renney said the two spoke briefly after the game last night, and both were on board with getting him right back in against the Hurricanes. Renney…

So Dale Tallon has come out and said Chicago shouldn’t be in the mix for Mats Sundin because “the Hawks don’t have any room for him.”:http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=257996&src=149 “We don’t have any cap space,” Tallon told reporters in Denver. “We’d have to move (a player). There are very few teams that have…

I wouldn’t have been surprised if Henrik Lundqvist ripped into his teammates after tonight’s 8-5 undressing. Or maybe it’s that I wouldn’t have blamed him. But the goaltender, while clearly exasperated and even embarrassed by matching his career high for goals allowed, merely implicated himself in the loss. “I need…

It has been the rare game when the Rangers haven’t made some sort of adjustment from the previous outing. Tonight appears to be one of those. According to Tom Renney, he’ll go with the same combinations as Wednesday against the Thrashers, with the lone change Henrik Lundqvist back in net.…

So it goes without saying that this should be the night that the Devils finally shake loose of the Rangers recent stranglehold over them. The stars are aligned for New Jersey, right? The Devils have won eight of nine. The Rangers, despite their squeaker in Atlanta, are still struggling. All…

We interrupt this heated conversation about inconsistency to fill you in on the Rangers part in an off-ice worthy cause. On Saturday, the Garden will conduct its Garden of Dreams telethon, which will run concurrently with all three games by local teams. Fans can call in to make donations, and…